Philadelphia 2035 (Clark: transient, elections, mandatory)

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by Hannah5555

All I was saying was that not all boomers are technologically challenged, nor are they so set in their ways they don't welcome change, new ideas and a welcome departure from the status quo.

I spent 41 years in IT so I'm obviously not challenged by tech!

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by Hannah5555

All I was saying was that not all boomers are technologically challenged, nor are they so set in their ways they don't welcome change, new ideas and a welcome departure from the status quo.

I often refer to myself as "a Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer body."

[Hannah5555]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

I often refer to myself as "a Millennial trapped in a Baby Boomer body."

Haha. I am the mom of a Millennial. I feel that way, too

[cpomp]

Toll gets new permit for Jewelers Row residential tower

[cpomp]

Figured I would post here, but PA has officially past Illinois at the 5th most populous state. And PA actually gained about 21,000 residents over the year period. Illinois on the other hand lost over 30,000, not good.

2017 Est. 12,805,537.

[thedirtypirate]

Clarke working hard to keep his district as ghetto as possible

Why give a pass to so many delinquent taxpayers? | Editorial

Domb in mid-November finally introduced his long-anticipated legislation to securitize the city’s nearly 69,000 outstanding residential and commercial delinquent property tax bills. That means selling the debt to firms who will collect it.

Clarke, Sanchez, and Blackwell introduced a version of the same legislation on the same day with one key difference — it exempted all residential properties in their three districts.

That means homeowners and landlords get a pass in nearly a third of the city.
Bad enough that Council members would endorse the outright unfairness of exempting their own corners of the city from paying their share. But worse, such a move heavily favors landlords who make up a large percentage of tax deadbeats.

According to an Inquirer and Daily News review of records, in Clarke’s Fifth District, there are three tax delinquent landlord-owned properties for every one owner-occupied property with back taxes. In Sanchez’s Seventh District and Blackwell’s Third District, landlords on the list outnumber homeowners two to one.

This is the stuff that makes my blood boil.

[jjv007]

Originally Posted by cpomp

Figured I would post here, but PA has officially past Illinois at the 5th most populous state. And PA actually gained about 21,000 residents over the year period. Illinois on the other hand lost over 30,000, not good.

2017 Est. 12,805,537.

If you think about it, this is the last time in US history PA will be in the top 5.

[cpomp]

Originally Posted by thedirtypirate

Clarke working hard to keep his district as ghetto as possible

Why give a pass to so many delinquent taxpayers? | Editorial



This is the stuff that makes my blood boil.

They should be in jail. I pray for Philadelphia when I read s*** like this.

Forgiving delinquent tax payers, forgiving delinquent parking tickets, more parking, mandatory affordable housing, eminent domain to prevent developers from building.... Sounds like a world class city to me, really saddening.

[PhilliesPhan2013]

Originally Posted by thedirtypirate

Clarke working hard to keep his district as ghetto as possible

Why give a pass to so many delinquent taxpayers? | Editorial



This is the stuff that makes my blood boil.

How come Clarke, Blackwell, and Sanchez are always three names that stick out on anything piece of legislation that will be objectively bad? I would be so happy to see all three of them given the boot! They are holding this city back for their own personal gain.

As someone who lives in the 5th District, I believe that it would be easy to boot Clarke out of office. The 5th includes Brewerytown, Francisville, Fishtown, Northern Liberties, Fairmount, Spring Garden, Logan Square, and parts of Center City and South Kensington. Additionally, there are tens of thousands of Temple students who could easily register to vote and help with the effort to get him out if they were engaged enough.

[jjv007]

Originally Posted by PhilliesPhan2013

How come Clarke, Blackwell, and Sanchez are always three names that stick out on anything piece of legislation that will be objectively bad? I would be so happy to see all three of them given the boot! They are holding this city back for their own personal gain.

As someone who lives in the 5th District, I believe that it would be easy to boot Clarke out of office. The 5th includes Brewerytown, Francisville, Fishtown, Northern Liberties, Fairmount, Spring Garden, Logan Square, and parts of Center City and South Kensington. Additionally, there are tens of thousands of Temple students who could easily register to vote and help with the effort to get him out if they were engaged enough.

Temple students are incredibly socially liberal, why would they vote guys like Clarke out? The irony is that I think people like Clarke and Sanchez are antithetical to progressive values but anyway.